The Kosciusko Community YMCA announced today another Togetherhood™ project for its members and the community to get involved that will serve the local homeless shelter, Fellowship Missions. Togetherhood™ is the Y’s Signature Program for Social Responsibility and invites Y members to lead and participate in volunteer service projects that benefit the community where they live, according to a press release from the YMCA. This project will partner with Fellowship Missions to cook and serve a dinner and a breakfast at the shelter. First, the Y needs members and the community to donate food items to be used in making a taco dinner and a pancake breakfast. The ingredient list can be found and signed up for in the lobby at the Y. Then it needs five people to cook dinner at 5 p.m. July 20 and breakfast at 6:30 a.m. July 25. Then they’ll need volunteers to help serve the meal at 6 p.m. for dinner and 7 a.m. for breakfast. Register to participate in the project at the YMCA’s Welcome Center. Even if a person is not a Y member but always wanted to serve at Fellowship Missions, they’re invited to participate. Togetherhood™ was created to strengthen communities by allowing Y members to lead and run convenient, fun and rewarding service projects as part of the Y member experience, the release states. By bringing people together in service to their neighborhoods, Togetherhood™ is designed to build both individual and community well-being. Y members work as a committee in partnership with their Y to select, plan and run projects outside the Y that benefit the people and organizations in their community. Many of the projects will include a partnership with another community non-profit. This year’s committee is made up of Sandy Hatcher, Marilyn Kincaide, Krista Nicholson, Dan Pacheco, David Phelps, Susan Potter, Betsy Ray and Rick Roberts. If you have any questions about serving through the Togetherhood™ program, contact Summer Zimmer at 574-269-9622.
